Koat pitha.
Koat pitha from the beautiful state Mizoram. A delicious sweet fritter made with banana, rice flour and jaggery.
After Meghalaya sharing a recipe from Mizoram, one of the state of seven sisters state of India.
The Seven Sister States is a popular term for the contiguous states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura prior to inclusion of the state of Sikkim into the North Eastern Region of India.
Mizoram is a state in northeastern India, with Aizawl as its capital city. The name is derived from “Mizo”, the name of the native inhabitants, and “Ram”, which means land, and thus Mizoram means “land of the Mizos”. Within the northeast region, it is the southernmost landlocked state, sharing borders with three of the Seven Sister States, namely Tripura, Assam and Manipur.
Rice is the staple food of Mizoram, while Mizos love to add non-vegetarian ingredients in every dish. Fish, chicken, pork and beef are popular meats among Mizos. Dishes are served on fresh banana leaves. Most of the dishes are cooked in mustard oil.
Source – Wikipedia
This month in Shhhhh cooking secretly challenge
facebook group after Meghalaya cuisine we are sharing different dishes from Mizoram cuisine.
This month my partner is Renu Agrawal Dongre. Who blog at Cook With Renu. Do visit her space for some wonderful recipes.
We gave each other two secret ingredients. Renu gave me rice flour and jaggery. And I gave her Nigella seeds and mustard seeds. Check out her space for the delicious Panch phoran taratari recipe she shared with these ingredients.
This soft inside and crisp outside koat pitha is very easy to make. Just mash the banana well with jaggery powder, mix rice flour and make fitters with it. Serve when cool. I love cardamom and jaggery mixed flavour so added cardamom powder. But if you want authentic taste then you can omit cardamom powder.
Recipe source – Gayathriscookspot
Recipe
Rice flour – 1/4 cup
Jaggery – 1/4 cup
Banana – 2
Cardamom powder – 1/2 teaspoon, optional
Method
1. Mash the banana with a fork.
2. Add jaggery powder or grated jaggery and mix well. Make it smooth.
3. Add rice flour and cardamom powder. Mix and make a lump free thick batter.
4. Heat sufficient oil in a pan.
5. Drop a tablespoon full batter in the oil and fry on low medium heat till it becomes golden brown.
6. Turn over and fry the other side too.
7. Remove from oil and place on a paper towel.
8. Fry all the pitha this way.
9. Let the pitha cool down completely before serving.
10. Serve as a snack with tea or coffee.
Note
If you want authentic taste skip cardamom powder. I have added it for flavour.
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This sweet treat is really delicious, I can vouch for that as I’d made it for the Arunachal Pradesh cuisine. It seems to be very popular in the NE states.
Thanks Mayuri. Yes this and panch phoran taratari seems to be very popular in the NE state. 😊
Nice
Thank you 😊
Regional Indian Cuisine is so unique and similar in their own ways. Like the North East – Mizo Cuisine, we Keralites make our Appams with similar ingredients and ghee. I am sure I would enjoy this lovely dessert very much!
Thanks Vidya. You are right. Do you know in Bengal we also make a kolar bora in similar way with refined flour 😊
Is it? Need to check that out now that you have mentioned, sounds interesting.
And in Assam it called kol pitha because banana is called kol in Assamese language.
Really delicious and easy to make in the evenings.
Thanks Shobana 😊
These Koat Pitha are right up my alley. I have a feeling my big sweet tooth will love them. 🙂 Awesome recipe!
Thanks a lot Priya 😊
A very simple and del8cious dessert. Easy to whip up using ingredients found at home.
Thank you so much Priya 😊
I made the same dish for the event. I am sure you would have enjoyed this as much as we did. This is such a easy snack which can be made in no time.
Yes you are right. Easy and delicious snack 😊
So few ingredients and such a great dish. The south indian in me loves this banana-based tea-time snack.
Thank you so much Aruna 😊
Koat pitha Seema very popular in North Eastern Cuisine. Such a flavorful and delectable dessert with handful of ingredients !
We make a similar version but with whole wheat flour. This looks absolute yum and I believe with rice flour it would even add crunch. Yum.
Thank you so much Renu. Yes rice flour made it crispy from outside 😊
In UP we make a similar kind called pue but wheat flour.. it is good option for those who want to avoid gluten in their diets. Appam from south or Kota pita from northeast so much similarity with diversity in the cuisine.. lovely share and these look so tempting
Thanks a lot Swaty. You are right these are somewhere similar. I also make pua and love it 😊
The Koat Pitha look so good di ! With the rice flour and jaggery it surely gives a nice pick in dessert category 🙂
Thanks much Sasmita 😊
Koat Pitha looks so yummy and irresistible ! and it has turned out Great. Lovely Share!
Thank you so much Pavani 😊